PA Lottery Powerball Ticket Worth $1 Million Sold in Montgomery County

Middletown –One Powerball® ticket worth $1 million for the Wednesday, Dec. 25, drawing was sold in Montgomery County.

The ticket sold at Sunoco, 775 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, correctly matched all five white balls, 23-28-38-39-56, but not the red Powerball 32, for a $1 million second-tier prize, less 25 percent federal withholding.

The retailer receives a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

Lottery officials cannot confirm the identity of the winner until the prize is claimed and the ticket is validated. Pennsylvania Lottery Powerball winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.

The Lottery encourages the holder of the winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at any of Lottery’s seven area offices or at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County.

Claims may be filed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at area offices and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at headquarters.

More than 21,500 other prize-winning Powerball tickets were sold statewide for the Dec. 25 drawing.

With one jackpot-winning ticket sold in Missouri for Wednesday’s drawing, the Powerball jackpot for the Saturday, Dec. 28, drawing resets to $40 million.

The Pennsylvania Lottery awarded nearly $103 million in prizes to Montgomery County winners and contributed nearly $58.5 million to programs serving the county’s older residents in the 2012-13 fiscal year.

How to play Powerball: Players pay $2 and select five white balls from the first set of 59 numbers plus a single red ball, the Powerball, from a second set of 35 numbers. Players may select their own numbers using a Powerball playslip, or they may opt for computer-selected quick picks. Players must match all five numbers drawn plus the Powerball number to win the jackpot. There also are eight additional ways for players to win a cash prize.

Powerball is sold in 43 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception in 1971, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed nearly $23.7 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free transit and reduced-fare shared rides; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state.

The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.

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